Chapter 99. To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1921
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CHAP. 99.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1921. March 8, 1922.[[S. 2492](/us/bill/67/s/2492).][[Public, No. 168](/us/pl/67/168).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army Appropriation Act for 1922. That the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1921, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
That the first paragraph under the heading “Clothing, camp, and*Ante*, p. 81, amended. garrison equipage,” on page 15 of the law, be amended to read as follows: " “For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufactureClothing, and camp and garrison equipage. of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to activeSales at current prices. duty; for issue and for sale at average current prices to be determined and fixed by the Secretary of War; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planters Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and418 cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries; for equipment and repair of equipment of dry-cleaning plants, salvage, and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repairEquipage, etc. shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $30, to be issued when necessary to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably; to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison; and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason,Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc. discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary*Proviso*.Settlement of clothing accounts. reasons, $12,000,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the settlement of clothing accounts of enlisted men, including charges for clothing drawn in excess of clothing allowance and payments of amounts due them when they draw less than their allowance, shall be made at such periods and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
” " Approved, March 8, 1922.